About the Association
A School of 107 Years, and the People It Sent Out
Ramashram Alumni Association Society is a registered, non-political body of the former students of Govt. Inter College Ramashram at Jakholi — a school that opened as a class of thirty children in 1918 and has been teaching in these hills ever since.
- Registered
- 30 July 2025
- Registration no.
- UK0580872025015133
- Registered under
- Societies Registration Act, 1860
- Area of work
- All India
How It Began
From a Class of Thirty to an Inter College
Raised one stage at a time over more than a century, on land the village gave and largely by the effort of the people who lived around it.
Around 1918–19, in the time of Maharaja Narendra Shah of Tehri, a primary school opened at Jakholi. It taught up to standard 3, and its pupils walked to the Raudhdhar school in Khas Patti to sit their examinations. Anything beyond that meant Raudhdhar, or Pratap Middle School in Tehri.
Upper primary classes to standard 5 began in 1937–38, though examinations still meant a journey to Hindolakhal, Raudhdhar or Tehri. In 1948–49, in the Tehri state of an independent India, the school was raised to middle school — and it was then that the name Ramashram was joined to Jakholi.
Why Ramashram
Directly below where the inter college stands today there is a temple of Hanuman, and the primary school once ran on that very spot. During excavation in 1918–19, idols of Ram, Lakshman, Sita and Hanuman were uncovered there, suggesting a temple of Ram had stood on the site long before. The place took its name from it.
Thakur Hukum Singh Negi, pradhan of Jakholi and Bajira, gave his own land for the temple and for the school. The building that stands today is also on land the villagers gave. The school has never once been built on ground it had to buy.
It became a high school in 1969 and an intermediate college in 1975. The students who passed through it are now spread across the country and beyond — which is the whole reason this association exists.
Stage by Stage
A Century, One Step at a Time
Every raise in the school's grade took years of asking, and each one is on record. The last two steps are the association's own.
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1918–19
The school opens
Established as Primary School Jakholi under Maharaja Narendra Shah of Tehri, teaching thirty children up to standard 3 on land Thakur Hukum Singh Negi gave.
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1937–38
Upper primary
Classes extended to standard 5. Students still travelled to Hindolakhal, Raudhdhar or Tehri for examinations.
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1948–49
Middle school
Upgraded to middle school. The name Ramashram was joined to Jakholi at this point.
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1969
High school
Upgraded to high school.
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1975
Inter college
Upgraded to intermediate college — its present form. The building stands on land donated by the villagers of Jakholi.
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2024
The idea
Dr. Mahesh Bhatt, Deepak Bhatt and Shiv Singh Negi decided one evening in December to bring the old and new people of Ramashram together.
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2025
Registered
Registered on 30 July 2025 with the Registrar of Societies, Uttarakhand, under the Societies Registration Act of 1860.
Our Purpose
हमारा उद्देश्य
Kept in the words the founders themselves used, with a translation beside it.
ये एसोसिएशन एक एलुमिनाई एसोसिएशन है जिसका मुख्य उद्देश्य मेल जोल और डेमोक्रेटिक तरीक़े से काम करना है, हमारा मक़सद एक-दूसरे की भावनाओं का सम्मान करना और एक दूसरे से मिलना जुलना है, इस प्रोसेस में बहुत सारे विचार बाइप्रोडक्ट्स के रूप में देखे जाने चाहिए, मुख्य मकसद पुराने छात्रों के बीच आपसी संवाद और मेल जोल बढ़ाना है।
अतः सभी सदस्यों से अनुरोध है कि अतिउत्साह से बचें ताकि हम एक दूसरे की सोच, भावनाओं और परिस्थितियों को समझ कर प्रतिक्रिया करें।
— Ramashram Alumni AssociationThis association is an alumni association whose main purpose is fellowship and working in a democratic manner. Our aim is to respect one another's feelings and to meet one another. The main purpose is to increase dialogue and fellowship among former students.
Members are requested to avoid over-enthusiasm, so that we respond with an understanding of each other's thinking, feelings and circumstances.
The idea was taken up in December 2024 by Dr. Mahesh Bhatt, Deepak Bhatt and Shiv Singh Negi. The society was formally registered on 30 July 2025, and its area of work is recorded as all India — members are spread well beyond Uttarakhand.
From the Society Rules
What the Association Undertakes
The objects clause of the registered rules runs to some forty items. They fall into four kinds of work, and every one of them is on record with the Registrar.
Education
- Support students of Ramashram through their schooling and beyond
- Set up and run libraries on social subjects
- Build hostels and residential facilities for students
- Establish gurukuls, and run seminars and study programmes
Livelihood
- Help members and local people find employment
- Encourage and support self-employment
- Set up and run small industries and handicrafts to reduce unemployment and poverty
- Work towards making families self-reliant
Community
- Arrange drinking water where it is short
- Care for the elderly, and for orphaned and destitute children
- Provide financial assistance to those who need it
- Run door-to-door awareness drives with the members themselves
Health and Environment
- Raise awareness of disease, and arrange treatment during public health emergencies
- Raise awareness of the environment
- Work alongside government environmental schemes
- Run public programmes for social development
How It Is Run
Who Decides What
Nothing here is invented for convenience. It is the structure a registered society is required to keep, and the rules name every part of it.
General Body
Formed of the life members. It elects the managing committee and its decisions are final.
Managing Committee
Elected by the general body. It prepares the annual budget, protects the society's property, keeps the record of work done and has it audited.
Office Bearers
President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, with the coordinators the committee appoints.
The Accounts
The society's bank account is operated jointly by the President and the Secretary — never by one alone. The financial year runs 1 April to 31 March.
Non-political, as a condition of existence
The society may be dissolved if half its founder members judge that it has stopped working towards its stated objects — or that it has taken part in political activity. Its assets would then pass to the District Magistrate's fund, to be used for the benefit of schools. Staying out of politics is not a preference here; it is the condition on which the society is allowed to exist.
Matters of Record
Registration
Registered with the Registrar of Societies, Uttarakhand. The certificate is reproduced here so any member can check the record against it.
- Registration no.
- UK0580872025015133
- Legal name
- Ramashram Alumni Association Society
रामाश्रम एलुमनाई एसोसिएशन सोसाइटी - Registered under
- Societies Registration Act, 1860 (Act 21 of 1860)
- Registered on
- 30 July 2025
- Valid until
- 29 July 2030
- Registered office
- Village Jakholi Lasya, District Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand 246141
- Area of work
- All India
- Financial year
- 1 April to 31 March
- Jurisdiction
- Rudraprayag
- Bank account
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State Bank of India · A/c
44816056722 ·
IFSC SBIN0006213
Operated jointly by the President and the Secretary.
Who Signed It Into Being
Founder Members
Those who put their names to the society in December 2024, before it was registered.
The roll is not up yet
The association's records are still being put in. The founder members, the office bearers elected from them, and everybody admitted since will all be listed here.
The Campus
Where It All Happened
The buildings, the corridors and the ground, photographed as they stand today.
Did You Study at Ramashram?
Membership is open whether you completed your schooling here or left partway. Both are alumni of this school.